Alexei Peppers
Professional game designer and long-time NetHack player who presented talks at Roguelike Celebration; discusses chaos theory and procedural generation in games.
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Episode 149: Chaos Theory
Alexei Peppers, a professional game designer and long-time NetHack player, explores chaos theory and procedural generation. He explains Lorenz’s butterfly effect, visualizing generators with expressive range, and how small changes shape outcomes. Conversations cover metrics for tuning generators, emergence from nonlinear rules, and how players learn and feel ownership of procedurally created worlds.
